Partitions or walls for metal furniture.



A. T. WEISS. v

PARTITIONS 0B WALLS FOR METAL FURNITURE.

APPLICATION FILED our. 30, 191s.

Patentd 0ct.6,1;914.

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A. T. WEISS.

PARTITIONS 0B. WALLS FOB. METAL FURNITURE.

APPLIO ATION FILED OUT. 30, 1918. 1 1 1 2,506.

Patented Oct. 6, 1914.

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ALBERT T. WEISS. OF ROCHESTER. NEXV YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 YA'WMAN & ERBE MFG. 00., OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

PARTITIONS OR WALLS FOR METAL FURNITURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 6, 1914.

Application filed October 30, 1913. Serial No. 798,231.

T all whom it may concern lie it known that I, ALBERT T. \Vmss, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Partitions or lValls for Metallic Furniture, and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the reference-numerals marked thereon.

My present invention relates to metallic furniture and it has for its object to provide a simple and efficient means for joining together intersecting inner walls or oors such as partition walls and their connections, the invention also comprlsmg a novel construction of the partition member itself.

The improvements are further directed toward providing a joint of this character particularly adapted for the upright Pilltltions of furniture wherein corresponding partitions in adjacent or superposedtiers are joined to a common wall at practically the same points.

To these and other ends the invention consists of certain improvements and combinations of parts, all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed out in the claims at the end of the specification.

In the drawings: Figure l is a front elevation of a metallic sectional furniture unit constructed in accordance with and illustrating one embodiment of my invention, one of the partitions and adjacent port1ons of its connecting walls being shown in section: Fig. "2 is a vertical section taken substantially on the line 22 of Fig. 1 in a plane parallel to that of one of the partitions and showing the latter in slde elevation; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the partitions and the connecting walls with one of the latter detached to better show the cotiperation of the parts, and Fig.

4 is a fragmentary plan view of the outer side of one of the connecting walls or floors.

Similar reference numerals in the several figures indicate the same parts.

The invention is herein illustrated as embodied in a unit of sectional furniture 1 divided into upper and lower tiers of chambers 2 which may be considered as representing drawer chambers, pigeon holes or any other desired cavity. The horizontal boundaries of the chambers are constituted by upper and lower walls or floors 3 and 't and an intermediate wall 5, all of which are provided with forwardly and rearwardly disposed plural pairs of corresponding slots 6 and with openings 7 intermediate the several pairs. The units of each pair of slots are parallel and the openings 7 are on a line drawn between the units of the several pairs. In the general plane of these slots (3 and in the same plane with each other are arranged partition mcmbers'S and 9 located on opposite sides of the intermediate wall 5 and constituting the vertical sides of the chambers .2. Each partition is preferably formed of two spaced parallel plates 10 and 11 suitably joined together at laterally arranged seams 12 that are provided at the meeting edges of the plates only after the latter have been turned to constitute the edge portion of the partition whereby the latter is given a better appearance and the seam more or less hidden. Embossed areas 13 struck out at intervals from the respective plates cooperate with each other in pairs on the center line between the plates and act effectively as strengthening and spacing means and may be welded or otherwise connected together. The opposite end edges of the respective plates are provided with flat projecting tongues 14 each of which is formed with an adjacent cutaway portion 15 of approximately the same area. The tongue of one plate comes opposite to the cutaway portion of its companion plate in the alternate manner clearlv shown in Fig. 2, so that the tongues comprise in all a plurality of pairs, the units of which are on opposite plates. The location and spacing of each. pair is identical with those of the pairs of slots 6 into which latter they project to occupy correspondingly o posite ends of the respective slots, the atter being long enough to extend across the cutaway portions 15 as well. In the cases of the lower tongues on the upper partition 8 and the upper tongues on the lowerpartition 9, the correspondingly located pairs occupy the same pair of slots in the intermediate wall 5. This is made possible by virtue of the alternate arrangement mentioned and each tongue of an upper pair occupies that portion of the slot also occupied by the tongue 1,11. rates of the lower pair which is opposite the cutaway portion adjacent the latter tongue into which cutaway portion it projects in the manner best shown in Fig. 2.

The whole structure is held together and the intersecting walls are pressed against the partitions by the rods 16 housed within the partition walls and 11 and-located intermediate the spacing means 13. 4 These tie 10 rods extend through the openings 7 and their projecting ends are apertured to receive split wedges 17 that are driven through alOng the outer faces of the top and bottom walls 3 and i and spread, as shown in Fig. 4:.

The tie rods are so constituted as to provide a firm general holding means retaining the various parts of the structure closely together while the specific nature of the partitions themselves, embodying the spaced 20 plates in contact at intervals and the alternation of the tongues, contributes to brace and rigidity the section. It may also be pointed out that the dual occupancy of the slots 16 by the tongues of both partitions reduces the number of punching operations required in producing the walls 3, 4 and 5.

I claim as my invention: 1. In metallic furniture, the combination with two walls, of a partition extending between them composed of two parallel spaced plates having inwardly projecting embossed areas thereon arranged at intervals and acting as spacing means between the plates, and a tie rod for compressing the walls against the partition, said rod being inclosed by the plates and arranged between two of the spacing means.

2. In metallic furniture, the combination with two walls having slots therein arranged 40 at intervals and openings between the slots of a partition wall comprising two spaced plates having projecting tongues at their ends eodperating with the slots in the walls and tie rods for compressing the walls against the partition passing through the openings in the former and inclosed between the plates of the latter.

3. in metallic furniture, the combination with upper and lower walls or floors and a similar intermediate wall, having a plurality of slots therein, of two partition walls arranged in the same plane and having tongues at their ends and cutaway portions adjacent to the tongues, each tongue at the proximate ends of the partitions being adapted to occupy a portion of a corresponding slot in the intermediate wall jointly with anoppositely projecting correspondin tongue on the other partition, the projecting portion of each of said tongues being accommodated within the cutaway portion adjacent to the other tongue. f

4. In metallic furniture, the combination with a partition member comprising two spaced parallel plates, each haying a pro jecting tongue at its end in the planeof the plate, of a wall to which the partition is connected having a slot in alinement with each wall and through which slots the tongues respectively project and means for compressing the wall against the partition.

5. In metallic furniture, the combination with two upper and lower walls or floors and a separate intermediate wall having a plurality of airsof parallel slots therein, of two partition walls arranged in the same plane and each comprising two spaced parallel plates having a plurality of pairs of parallel tongues at their ends, and a cutaway portion adjacent to each tongue, the pairs of tongues being adapted to occupy portions of the respective pairs of slots in the intermediate wall jointly with oppositely projecting pairs on corresponding tongues on the other partition, the projecting portion of each tongue being accommodated within the cutaway portion adjacent to the other tongue which is located in the same slot therewith.

ALBERT r. writes.

Witnesses:

RUssnLL B. GRIFFITH, H. E. S'ronnemnnu. 

